Text 6369, 106 rader
Skriven 2006-06-20 23:27:26 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 6368 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: installing Linux with eCS
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Hey Ed!

Jun 20 19:16 06, Ed Hulett wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 EH> No, they aren't the only people who have the claim for the name
 EH> "Linux". Linus Torvolds has that authority.

Which distribution does he use?

 EH> kernel.org isn't the only repository for Linux.

True but they are where it all starts for the rest of us Linux users.

 EH> Alan didn't ask for your opinion on what constitutes Linux. He asked
 EH> specifically if he could safely dual boot Linux and eCS (OS/2) and if
 EH> his 40GB unallocated partition was large enough for it.

For sure.  I did answer that part other then the multibooting part as I have no
idea if eCS (OS/2) can multiboot with Linux.  I've never used it.  Is it any
good for anything that Linux can't do without it?

 MK>> I didn't say that, but that is the MOST honest Linux.  :-)

 EH> Yes you did. And no it isn't.

I respectfully disagree and I know I am right.

 MK>> The usual case.  So far nothing different about that.

 EH> Then, what IS your problem?

I have no problem.  I know what Linux is.

 EH> Where, your house?

Yep.  Used to do it for other people as well but since then they either
discovered how to do it for themselves or went back to windows.  I noticed
quite a few of them returning computers to have win98 reinstalled to them as
they couldn't live with xp anymore.  I found that really interesting.

 EH> Slackware isn't the best by any stretch.

Yes it is.  Also the oldest still existing distribution which in itself says
something for it.

 EH> Your statement "...makes you superior..." shows just where your head
 EH> is... in the clouds.

Always.  Where is yours?  ;-)

 EH> I'm sure they are all "superior" just like you. <yawn>

I am not superior.  Anything here that can claim superiority was inherited. 
Some of my tweaks are superior though.  I can prove it too.  Just ask anyone
around here that has seen it.  They ALWAYS oooooo and ahhhhhhh.  :-)

 EH> www.kernel.org isn't the only source for Linux.

The main one.

 EH> Good for you.

It has been and continues to be.

 EH> And I didn't even compile a thing. Imagine that.

Sounds boring to me.

 EH> As I have said repeatedly, www.kernel.org isn't the only source for
 EH> Linux. There are hundreds of distributions available.

The main one.  Without it argueably there would be no others.

 EH> I suppose you think you are the only one right.

No but I am here.  The majority doesn't count, right or wrong, since they can't
or won't do anything here.

 MK>> Good for them.  I wish them all the luck in the world.

 EH> Sure you do.

Actually I do.  That was honest.  The more the merrier methinks, whether I use
them or not.  I think we all benefit from that.

 EH> Most distros come with several packages to make the experience
 EH> enjoyable.

Such as?  I find I have to hack them to get what I want.  Mind you I am not
'most' by no stretch of anyone's imagination, not even my own.

 EH> Making the claim that it isn't Linux unless you get it from 

Linux is the kernel.  That is all it is.  The rest is whatever it wants to be
and works on nonLinux systems too.  Check out the BSD's and you will see much
there that you will find in Linux distributions.  Why is that so?

 EH> There isn't much the average user can do with just the raw kernel.

The poor sods.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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